Long John Silver is a fictional character and the primary antagonist of the novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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Famous quotes containing the words long, john and/or silver:
“An evil spirit, your beauty, haunts me still,
Wherewith, alas! I have been long possessed,”
—Michael Drayton (1563–1631)
“How soon I may ride the whole world about;
And at the third question thou must not shrink,
But tell me here truly what I do think.””
—Unknown. King John and the Abbot of Canterbury (l. 30–32)
“And now the chapel’s silver bell you hear,
That summons you to all the pride of pray’r:”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)